[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814) › 4.36 # 大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.36 大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.36 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.36) 論。自信己性至不取念　釋曰。次下顯熏功能。於中雖顯五位。修證因果別故。總分為二。初明因。後顯果。此初也。於中則顯菩薩四位。自信己性者。即資糧位。由其欣厭正顯真故。自信己身有真如性。能為正因。必成佛果。知心妄動等者。即加行位。漸近金道得起真智。於真如法得深解。故知心妄動本無前境。依解即修尋思實智。唯識觀等離二取行。是故復云修遠離法以如實知等即見道位。以見道中唯識觀成實。離二取都無所得。異前比觀名實知。種種已下顯修道。謂於十地修道位中欲多方便顯真如故。起順真如所修勝行。故言種種方便起隨順行。不見行相故云不取。不望異果故云不念。或復總舉因位解行不論別配四位。修習自信己性等者。因信修解。以如實已下。因解修行。即信己性本無動念。修離念法以為正因。起修順行為助緣也。 > \[Treatise:\] Confidently believing in one's own nature \[...\] not grasping or conceiving. / \[Commentary:\] Next below, the functional efficacy of perfuming is revealed. Although five stages are revealed therein, because the causes and results of cultivation and realization differ, they are generally divided into two: first explaining the cause, and then revealing the result. This is the first. Therein, four stages of a bodhisattva are revealed: "Confidently believing in one's own nature" refers to the stage of equipment (saṃbhāra-mārga); because its longing and revulsion directly reveal the real, one confidently believes that one's own person possesses the nature of tathatā, which can serve as the direct cause to definitely accomplish the fruit of Buddhahood. "Knowing the mind's deluded movement" and so forth refers to the stage of application (prayoga-mārga); gradually nearing the adamantine path, one can give rise to true cognition and attain deep understanding of the dharma of tathatā, thus knowing that the mind's deluded movement fundamentally has no external object confronting it. Relying on this understanding, one cultivates the thorough investigation of actual cognition (tattvajñāna), the contemplation of consciousness-only, and other practices free of the two graspers; therefore it also says "cultivating methods of detachment". "Through knowing in accordance with reality" and so forth refers to the path of seeing (darśana-mārga); because within the path of seeing the contemplation of consciousness-only is accomplished in reality, one is genuinely free of the two graspers and has nothing whatsoever to attain, which differs from the preceding inferential contemplation, and is therefore called "knowing in accordance with reality". From "manifold" below, the path of cultivation (bhāvanā-mārga) is revealed: during the path of cultivation on the ten stages, wishing through many expedient means to reveal tathatā, one gives rise to superior practices cultivated in accordance with tathatā; hence it says "giving rise to conforming practices through manifold expedient means". Not viewing the marks of practice, it is called "not grasping"; not anticipating a different result, it is called "not conceiving". Or, again, it generally brings forth the understanding and practice of the causal stages without categorizing them into four distinct stages: cultivating "confident belief in one's own nature" and the like means cultivating understanding based on faith; from "through knowing in accordance with reality" below, it means cultivating practice based on understanding; that is, believing that one's own nature fundamentally has no stirred thoughts, one cultivates the dharma free of thoughts as the direct cause, and engages in conforming practice as an auxiliary condition. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.35) - [Next: 4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.37) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814~en-mt.4.36) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.36) · Pramāṇa